Re: Your opinion on the ATi Rage IIC and Rage Pro
Posted on 2023-04-08, 20:23
Do you mean drivers above 2692 support dx6 games? I know they REQUIRE DX6 to install... Tangential question: Can you overclock Rage II by any means whatsoever?
Re: ATI Rage II 109-38200-00 Memory Upgrade
Posted on 2023-04-05, 04:05
BTW can PowerStrip (or any other piece of software) (or any other method whatseover) overclock any part of this card? I think 10% wouldn't hurt it, as I've heard the chips can handle up to 30. The fact that there's even mention of clocking these differently leads me to believe that it is possible …
Re: ATI Rage II 109-38200-00 Memory Upgrade
Posted on 2023-04-04, 18:51
If it's SGRAM, then there's no problem. I keep seeing descriptions of this product all over the place that say the product comes with either EDO, SD or SG RAM and sometimes you get the clock speeds attached to each... I think 60, 66 and 83 respectively? However the daughterboard mentioned seems to …
Re: ATI Rage II 109-38200-00 Memory Upgrade
Posted on 2023-04-03, 19:53
Ok fair enough. But before I can do that I have to buy the memory module and I'm just concerned about compatibility. The serial number on the RAM actually leads me to believe the onboard RAM is already SGRAM but advertising and wikis on the product hints at it being the crappy underclocked EDO RAM. …
Re: ATI Rage II 109-38200-00 Memory Upgrade
Posted on 2023-04-03, 19:40
I interpreted your post correctly. The question is WHY? I get how the frame buffer will increase, and that can hold more pixels. So getting higher res support I totally understand. But the texture memory will correspondingly increase. Why would this not improve performance in texture heavy games? I …
Re: ATI Rage II 109-38200-00 Memory Upgrade
Posted on 2023-04-03, 19:13
Not sure I understand. The literature says the onboard 2MB is split between the frame buffer and 3D texture memory. That equates to roughly half (1MB) for textures. Would this not become a bottleneck in games, limiting framerates? It is said that cards that natively had 4 or 8MB already were faster …
ATI Rage II 109-38200-00 Memory Upgrade
Posted on 2023-04-03, 18:54
After doing a bit of research on this card, which I've had in my possession forever, I suddenly came across this memory upgrade daughterboard 109-34600-10 containing 2MB SGRAM. My card, as it is, is pretty shit but it's in a period appropriate P133 and I like it. I would like to upgrade it if …
Re: "Accelerating" Windows 95 with Creative's Advanced Signal Processor (CSP)
Posted on 2021-12-28, 06:11
I think I will have to. After trying to get QSound working in W95 according to TheMan's instructions, I can't seem to notice any difference in the sound of wav files. Except now that I think about it, I have to pry the chip out of the card in order to do an A-B comparison? That sucks.
Re: CSP.SYS - Could not detect the CSP
Posted on 2021-12-27, 22:40
Is the 2290 any different? I just got my ASP chip, installed it, the diagnose tool says detected, I installed the CSP files, rebooted and tried to load the QSDemo and it said low level driver error. Then I put CSP v1.14 attached above and there's no difference in behaviour. What am I doing wrong?
Re: "Accelerating" Windows 95 with Creative's Advanced Signal Processor (CSP)
Posted on 2021-12-23, 01:39
I assumed as much. But it looks like it's not as high quality either. So the real question is, can you play an ADPCM file without lag, using the ASP, that has the same audio fidelity as the MP3 counterpart? Or put another way, which method gets you better music on inadequate hardware: Playing MP3s …
Re: "Accelerating" Windows 95 with Creative's Advanced Signal Processor (CSP)
Posted on 2021-12-21, 08:55
Oh I wasn't suggesting using that chip for MP3s. I was merely commenting that when it comes to running compressed audio on an old 386, you have the option of decompressing ADPCM via the ASP OR decoding MP3s via the FPU. Either solution would be impressive on a 33MHz machine. I get the impression …
Re: Testing the Sound Blaster ASP
Posted on 2021-12-20, 23:37
Oh. Because Phil did a video on the ESS Audiodrive and showed how Duke 2 wouldn't work on another card....I think it was a Yamaha?
Re: "Accelerating" Windows 95 with Creative's Advanced Signal Processor (CSP)
Posted on 2021-12-20, 19:36
You know what would be really cool is if you could use the ASP to play MP3s (converted to compressed ADPCM) in DOS the way CUBIC plays MP3s in DOS using the FPU. I tried to do the latter but it didn't work for reasons I can't figure out... maybe the version was the wrong one or something. Really …
Re: Testing the Sound Blaster ASP
Posted on 2021-12-20, 19:20
That is really cool! The only issue is he's doing this test on a 25MHz 386, where the benefits seem to be quite profound. I have my SB16 installed on a P133. I suspect the load is going to be below 10% even running off the CPU so it may be below the noise threshold and prevent me from noticing a …
Testing the Sound Blaster ASP
Posted on 2021-12-20, 07:21
I was lucky enough to come across an ASP chip on ebay and bought it. I know it does little to nothing but it's not totally worthless and is a piece of history so why not. From my understanding it has half-working QSound (re: TheMan), text to speech, 1 video game that supports it and possibly more. …
Re: CT2740 (SB16 ISA) Constant Crackling Sound
Posted on 2021-06-17, 04:40
OK. So I've tried some stuff and learned some things. As I mentioned before the crackling somehow goes away when I go into the DIAGNOSE utility and get to midi on page 2. Since I am unable to exit the utility in this state (I must complete the diagnostic or the sound card will crash and spew noise), …
Re: CT2740 (SB16 ISA) Constant Crackling Sound
Posted on 2021-06-16, 16:06
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Re: CT2740 (SB16 ISA) Constant Crackling Sound
Posted on 2021-06-16, 16:05
Here's some more pics of the setup
Re: CT2740 (SB16 ISA) Constant Crackling Sound
Posted on 2021-06-16, 15:27
No, with all the pulling the card in and out for testing, I didn't bother.
CT2740 (SB16 ISA) Constant Crackling Sound
Posted on 2021-06-16, 04:38
This is a bit tricky of a problem. The original card that I've had in this computer forever was a CT2740 and over time it stopped working. I went through a huge ordeal years ago to find out it was a heat problem (probably a failing chip) and as of today, it's pretty much dead after 30 seconds of …
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